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Help swapping "dead" drive? [Case #15693780]
Hey all, I have an NV+ that is about 2 months old. I fired it up and loaded it with all of our data, backed up all files from PC's etc...it has 4 x 2TB WD Green Caviar drives at this point. All is wel...
@mjw3786
I have not read the entire thread but I have a RNPP and six WD20EADS drives. I recall updating firmware a while back and I had some problems. I had escalating LLCs and eventually ran the Dos utilities TLER ON & WDIDLE /D on the affected drive and it stopped the increasing LLCs. I then had a drive show up as "DEAD" and I do not remember exactly how this happened but to make a long story short here is the saga.
I went to BB and got two new WD drives with the proper firmware revision and then shut down the RNPP and pulled the dead drive. As suggested by mdgm I ran the vendor tools and found no problems. Next I ran the DOS utilities listed above and just for kicks put it back in the RNPP and flipped the power toggle and watched as the unit resynced the "DEAD" disk thinking that it would not work. After resyncing the "DEAD" hard drive showed no SMART errors and has functioned without problems for over 10 months. I still have one of the new hard drives available just in case but why don't you try the DOS utilities. What do you have to lose? Please check my posts for the "how to" steps and post your results.
Hope this helps.
bigbearf
I have not read the entire thread but I have a RNPP and six WD20EADS drives. I recall updating firmware a while back and I had some problems. I had escalating LLCs and eventually ran the Dos utilities TLER ON & WDIDLE /D on the affected drive and it stopped the increasing LLCs. I then had a drive show up as "DEAD" and I do not remember exactly how this happened but to make a long story short here is the saga.
I went to BB and got two new WD drives with the proper firmware revision and then shut down the RNPP and pulled the dead drive. As suggested by mdgm I ran the vendor tools and found no problems. Next I ran the DOS utilities listed above and just for kicks put it back in the RNPP and flipped the power toggle and watched as the unit resynced the "DEAD" disk thinking that it would not work. After resyncing the "DEAD" hard drive showed no SMART errors and has functioned without problems for over 10 months. I still have one of the new hard drives available just in case but why don't you try the DOS utilities. What do you have to lose? Please check my posts for the "how to" steps and post your results.
Hope this helps.
bigbearf
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